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Stingray

Stingray
Author
Kim Joo-young
Co-Author
-
Translator
Inrae You Vinciguerra,Louis Vinciguerra
Publisher
DALKEY ARCHIVE
Published Year
2013
Country
UNITED STATES
Classification

KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 20th century > 1945-1999

Original Title
홍어
Original Language

Korean(한국어)

Romanization of Original
Hongeo
ISBN
9781564789594
Page
88
Volume
-
The Series
Dalkey Archive's Library of Korean Literature
Writer default image
  • Kim Juyeong
  • Birth : 1939 ~ -
  • Occupation : Writer
  • First Name : Juyeong
  • Family Name : Kim
  • Korean Name : 김주영
  • ISNI : -
  • Works : 24
No. Call No. Location Status Due Date Reservation
1 영어 813 김주영 홍-유 LTI Korea Library Available - -
Descriptions
  • English(English)

Hailed by critics, Stingray has been described by its author as “a critical biography of my loving mother.” Hailed by critics, Stingray has been described by its author as “a critical biography of my loving mother.” With his father having abandoned his family for another woman, Se-young and his mother are forced to subsist on their own in the harsh environment of a small Korean farming village in the 1950s. Determined to wait for her husband’s return, Se-young’s mother hangs a dried stingray on the kitchen doorjamb; to her, it’s a reminder of the fact that she still has a husband, and that she must behave as a married woman would, despite all. Also, she claims, when the family is reunited, the fish will be their first, celebratory meal together. But when a beggar girl, Sam-rae, sneaks into their house during a blizzard, the first thing she does is eat the stingray, and what follows is a struggle, at once sentimental and ideological, for the soul of the household.

 

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